 ... the knower is not simply a mirror floating with no foot-hold anywhere, and passively reflecting an order that he comes upon and finds simply existing. The knower is an actor, and coefficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers...  The Quarterly Review - Page 40edited by - 1921Full view - About this book
 | WM. James - 1878 - 460 pages
...actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human action—action which to a great extent transforms the world—help to make the truth which they declare.... | |
 | William James - Parapsychology - 1920 - 540 pages
...actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he' helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses,...transforms the world — help to make the truth which they de-i dare. In other words, there belongs to mind, from> its birth upward, a spontaneity, a vote. It... | |
 | Edward Leroy Schaub - Philosophy - 1928 - 626 pages
...actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses,...make the truth which they declare.) In other words, there(belongs to mind, from its birth upward, a spontaneity, a vote. It is in the game, and not a mere... | |
 | Dale Maurice Riepe - Philosophy - 1979 - 418 pages
...view."168 The knower, says James is not simply a mirror but an actor. Mathur quotes James as saying : Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as...transforms the world — help to make the truth which they declare.169 Action does not make the truth so much as creates a situation in which new truths appear,... | |
 | Bruce Kuklick - Philosophy - 1979 - 712 pages
...an actor, and coefficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human action—action which to a great extent transforms the world—help to make the truth which they declare.... | |
 | Don S. Browning - Philosophy - 1980 - 288 pages
...is an actor, and co-efficient of truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses,...postulates, so far as they are bases for human action — which to a great extent transforms the world — help to make the truth which they declare. In... | |
 | Gerald Eugene Myers - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 666 pages
...The knower is an actor. ... He registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests . . . help to make the truth which they declare. In other...belongs to mind, from its birth upward, a spontaneity, a vote."20 Subjectivity figures not only in the search for truth and in its definition but also in its... | |
 | James T. Kloppenberg - Political Science - 1988 - 557 pages
...actor, and co-efficient of the truth on one side, whilst on the other he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far as they are bases for human action—action which to a great extent transforms the world—help to make the truth which they declare.... | |
 | Roger Smith - Science - 1997 - 1074 pages
...consciousness as 'conscious interests', a purposeful dimension to our conscious life that makes a difference: 'Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, so far...extent transforms the world - help to make the truth they declare. In other words, there belongs to mind, from its birth upward, a spontaneity, a vote.''9... | |
 | Ruth Anna Putnam - Philosophy - 1997 - 430 pages
...he registers the truth which he helps to create. Mental interests, hypotheses, postulates, insofar as they are bases for human action - action which...world - help to make the truth which they declare. (EPh, 21) Here the idea that we help to make the truth is spelled out in an innocuous way: our actions... | |
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